Dimitris Tzamouranis
1967 | Born in Kalamata, Greece |
1985–1990 | Studied painting and printed graphics at the Academy of fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
1991-1994 | Studied painting at the Universität der Künste (UdK)Berlin. Meisterschüler Diplom. |
1995 | Spiropoulos Foundation award, Athens |
1999 | Residence in Istanbul with a scholarship of the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin |
Lives and works in Berlin and Kalamata. |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2018 | Garden of Youth, Tumult Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, Torun´ |
2017 | Mare Nostrum, Galerie Michael Haas, and Kunstlager Haas, Berlin |
2015 | A day for Life, a day for Death, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki |
2014 | Melancholia – Altar, Zone Contemporaine, Bern – Niedewagen Tarot, Galerie Haas, Zürich |
2013 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Retrospektive, Frissiras Museum, Athens Melancholia, Kunsthalle Osnabrück |
2012 | Melancholia, Galerie Miro, Prague |
2011 | Videoworks 1999-2001 Dimitris Tzamouranis, Vierter Stock, Projektraum Berlin |
2010 | Dimitris Tzamouranis – New Paintings, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin |
2009 | Time of the Signs – Jimmie Durham, Kendell Geers, Dimitris Tzamouranis, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich |
2008 | Scarscapes, MOMus Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki Dimitris Tzamouranis, Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin |
2007 | Supraficciones, Fundació “la Caixa”, Lleida, Spain |
2006 | Das Haus, Kunstverein Buchholz, Buchholz Spiegelsaal, Wohnmaschine, Berlin |
2005 | Paintings, Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, Thessaloniki |
2004 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Batagianni Gallery, Athens |
2003 | Dimitris Tzamouranis – Malerei, Tammen Galerie, Berlin |
2001 | 2+2=5, Stigma Gallery, Athens |
1999 | Rent a Dream, Bm-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul |
1997 | Dimitris Tzamouranis, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
1996 | Museum Spyropoulos, Athens |
1995 | Pleiades Gallery, Athens |
1991 | Galerie Marsyas, Berlin Silent conversations, Pleiades Gallery, Athens |
1990 | Gallery TinT, Thessaloniki |
Group exhibition (selection)
2019 | Homemade Exotica, Freiraum in der Box, Berlin
cdghlmtw, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Woods Art Institute, Wentorf bei Hamburg Wundersame Welten, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin |
2018 | Painting is still alive, Contemporary Art Center, Torun´
New Horizons III, Museum Frissiras, Athen The Poetry of Memory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rethymnon Kreta Durch die Zeit, Zone Contemporaine, Bern-Niederwagen |
2017 | Antidoron, the Collection of EMST, Documenta 14 Kassel
New Acquisitions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens |
2015 | Freude Schöner Götter Funken – Am Anfang War Das Kreuz, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart |
2014 | Existenzielle Bildwelten, Sammlung Reinking, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
Painting III (2000-2015) – Frissiras Museum, Athens Beyond melancholia., Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg |
2013 | Landschaft nach 2000, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
Real-Real? – Galerie Haas AG, Zürich Dream and Reality, Aliseo Art Projects, Gengenbach Art:screen, Vetlanda Museum, Schweden |
2012 | Alte und neue Stilleben aus der SØR-Rusche Sammlung, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Waldersloh-Liesborn
Face to Face, The Artist and the Collector, Frissiras Museum, Athens |
2011 | Polyglossia, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athen
Bulbus oculi, Kunstruimte deWILLEM3, Vlissingen Traum und Realität, Galerie Siegel – Springmann, Freiburg |
2010 | Lebenslust und Totentanz, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Waking the Dead, Kunsthalle Autocenter, Berlin Naked truth, Museum Frissiras, Athens Dream and reality, Galerie Miro, Prag |
2009 | Berlin-Istanbul: Die Berliner Istanbul Stipendiaten 1998-2009, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin
Paint-id. Contemporary painting in Greece, MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki In Istanbul, Between Arrival and Departure, Bm-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul |
2008 | Call it what you like – Collection Rik Reinking,
Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg Auslaender in Berlin, CITRIC, Brescia |
2007 | Malkunst 2 – Contemporary Painting in Berlin
Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Plüschow Topoi, Museum Benaki, Athen Malkunst 2 – Contemporary Painting in Berlin Mudima, Fondazione per l´Arte Contemporanea, Mailand Activni constelace, Haus der Kunst der Stadt Brünn, Tschechien |
2006 | Masquerades – Femininity, Masculinity and other Certainties, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Sabotage of Reality, Batagianni Gallery, Athens Minimal Illusions, Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen |
2005 | Drawings, Batagianni Gallery, Athens
Rigo Schmidt, Gavin Tremlett, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Wohnmaschine, Berlin Passion des Sammelns, Stiftung Federkiel, Halle 14, Leipzig An outing – Beltsios Collection, Art Center Trikala, Griechenland |
2004 | Biennale europea Arte Visive, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia
Breaktrough, Arco 2004, Alcala 31, Madrid In the Gorges of the Balkans, Personal Cinema Group, Kunsthalle Friidericianum, Kassel |
2002 | Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje Biennale of Visual Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
Familistère 1, Kunst-Werke e.V., Berlin La creación de la Guerra de los Balcanes: el juego, MediaLab Prado, Madrid |
2001 | Milestones for peace, Milton J. Well Gallery, New York |
2000 | Cleaning material store, Apartment Project, Istanbul |
1999 | Contemporary Art Center Ileana Tounta, Athens |
1998 | Transmutar – Berlin – Barcelona, Associacion de Cultura Contemporania L`Angelot (ACC), Barcelona
Orient/e, The Jewish Museum and Archives of Hungary, Budapest |
1997 | And Still the Ship is not in Sight, GAK – Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V., Bremen
And Still the Ship is not in Sight, Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997, Contemporary Art Center,Thessaloniki Inhuman essays, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens |
1990 | Configura 2, Kunsthalle Erfurt
Atmosfery, Galeria Miejska Arsenal, Pösen, Polen |
Artist Publications
- Tumult Foundation (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Garden of Youth, Torun 2018. Text: Michael Stoeber.
- Galerie Michael Haas (Hrsg.): Mare Nostrum, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Berlin 2017. Text: Michael Stoeber
- Galerie Haas Zürich (Hrsg.): Tarot, Dimitris Tzamouranis, Berlin 2014. Text: Erika Költzsch
- Frissiras Museum (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis – Painting. Athens 2013. Text: Thanassis Moutsopoulos
- Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis Melancholia. Ostfildern 2013, Hatje Cantz Verlag. Text: Sotirios Bachtsetzis, Andre Lindhorst, David Woodard
- Galerie Michael Haas Berlin(Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis – New Paintings, Berlin 2010 Text: Christos Joachimides
- Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Malerei, Berlin 2008
Kunstverein Buchholz (Hrsg.): Dimitris Tzamouranis, Altenburg 2006, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Text: Sven Nommensen, Sotirios Bachtsetzis